Illegal road use crackdown (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

Illegal road use crackdown

10:47am Sunday 22nd April 2007 in

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Nineteen people have been arrested and 31 vehicles seized in a major police crackdown on illegal road users in Bradford.

In the last three months, more than 1,000 drivers were hit with penalty notices by police working on the Bradford District Roads Policing Strategy.

The £30,000 scheme, funded by the Safer Communities Partnership, working with the West Yorkshire Casualty Reduction Partnership, issued 1,023 penalty notices between January and March, in Bradford, Keighley and Shipley.

Of those, 457 were for speeding, 153 for not wearing seatbelts (including children), 82 for using mobile phones (including HGV drivers) and 30 for illegally tinted windows.

Others were for driving without insurance, bus lane contravention, dangerous overtaking, illegally carrying drugs, parking obstruction, dangerous parts, illegal registration plates and driving without due care.

Also picked up were men on the run, including one wanted in connection with a burglary.